Mission / Instrument Studies

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The L4 mission concept (KASA) - providing and leading the dust science case.

The Lunar Gateway - providing the dust science case.

TOPICS and REFERENCES

Current Mission Involvement:

  • L4 mission concept (KASA), launch 2035 [Posner et al., 2021, Cho et al., 2021]
  • Lunar Gateway dust package (ESA, NASA, JAXA, CSA) [Wozniackiwicz 2021, Sterken et al., in prep.]
  • Destiny+ science team (JAXA/DLR), launch 2028 [Simolka et al., 2024; Krüger et al., 2024]

Past Topics:

  • DOLPHIN mission concept, Principal Investigator [Sterken et al., in prep.]
  • Interstellar Probe study [Hunziker et al, in prep.; Brandt et al. 2023; Webinar on youtube]
  • AstroLEAP Facility Definition Team (2024)
  • Joint Europa Mission (JEM) proposal for the ESA M5 call for medium-class missions. The goal of this mission is to explore the habitability of the Jovian moon Europa in a joint ESA-NASA effort. [Blanc et al., 2020]
  • S2D2 Proposal for ESA science themes for L-class missions: a mission concept consisting of two spacecraft to map the solar system in dust: one in-situ spacecraft for the dust flux and chemical composition in order to link the solar system dust and their parent bodies, and one infrared telescope out-of-the ecliptic plane for a birds-eye view on the solar system debris disk. PI: Ralf Srama, Univ. Stuttgart. (2013)
  • SARIM [Srama et al., 2012], Interstellar Heliopause Probe , FOSSIL, LIMO, LEX, Uranus mission [Arridge, C.S. et al., 2014], Cross-Scale Mission Technology Reference Study ESA-ESTEC

More information and updates at astrodust.phys.ethz.ch

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